Support for
Co-promotion operations for integrated investment in research, development and business innovation (R&D&I), with the objective of developing activities from research to production and/or introduction into the market of products or processes, enhancing productive innovation, resulting from cooperation between companies, involving SMEs and/or Small Mid Caps in co-promotion with large companies and/or non-business entities of the research and innovation system (ENESII).
Applications that fall within the investment areas of the Strategic Technologies Platform for Europe (STEP), within the scope of the application of Regulation (EU) 2024/795 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 February 2024, may be included in a specific Notice to be launched in this context.
Actions covered by this notice
Actions related to activities ranging from research to production and/or introduction into the market of products, processes or services, enhancing productive innovation, resulting from cooperation between companies, involving SMEs and/or Small Mid Caps in co-promotion with large companies and/or with ENESII.
Under the terms of article no. 52 of the Specific Regulation for the Thematic Area Innovation and Digital Transition of Portugal 2030 (REITD), productive investments must be complementary to the supported R&D activities, aiming at the incorporation of their results into economic activity and their introduction into the market or their availability to potential users.
The following actions are eligible:
Industrial research activities;
Experimental development activities;
Production of high or medium technologically intensive goods or knowledge-intensive services with a marketable or internationalizable focus, with high national incorporation.
The investments to be made must have the following objectives:
i) The production of high or medium-high technological intensity goods or knowledge-intensive services with a tradable or internationalizable focus, with a high level of national incorporation, which allow completing value chains and integration into global value chains;
ii) Be included in priority areas of smart specialization (RIS3), in order to reinforce the link between research and innovation; alignment in projects financed by COMPETE 2030 must be done with ENEI; alignment with Regional Programs occurs through the respective regional smart specialization strategies;
iii) Correspond to an initial investment, or an initial investment in favor of a new economic activity, as defined in paragraph 2 of article 19 of the REITD.
Investments of an innovative nature that correspond to an initial investment or an initial investment in favor of a new economic activity include the following actions:
The creation of a new establishment;
The increase in capacity of an existing establishment;
The diversification of an establishment’s production into products/services not previously produced in the establishment;
The fundamental alteration of the overall production process of an existing establishment.